Donald Pierce (The White King) is a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. The Character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #132. He was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. Donald Pierce is a cyborg. Jump to: navigation, search Marvel Comics, NYSE: MVL (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search In comic books, first appearance refers to the date or issue of a characters first appearance. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Jump to: navigation, search Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypical supervillains. ... Jump to: navigation, search Marvel Comics, NYSE: MVL (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search 7 of 9, a Borg in Star Trek: Voyager The term cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is used to designate an organism which is a mixture of organic and mechanical (synthetic) parts. ...

Character Biography

Donald first appeared as a high ranking member of the Hellfire Club inner circle, where he held the position of White King, during that organizations first direct encounter with the X-Men. During this conflict, he battled Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Collossus, and when Wolverine nearly severed his arm it was discovered that he was a cyborg. The Hellfire Club inner circle was eventually defeated and Donald Pierce's whereabouts were unknown for several years. Jump to: navigation, search The Hellfire Club was an exclusive English club that met irregularly from 1746 to around 1763, run by Sir Francis Dashwood. ...

Later, he resurfaced with Lady Deathstrike and three cybernetically resurrected mercenaries (Cole, Macon, and Reese) who had been fatally wounded by Wolverine during that first Hellfire club skirmish. All five characters were consumed by thier desire for revenge against the X-Men and Wolverine in particular. To that end Pierce created an army of cyborgs out of low-life thugs and a few mercenaries. He named his army "The Reavers". Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillainess in Marvel Comics and an occasional foe of the X-Men. ... In the fictional X-Men universe the Reavers are a team of criminal cyborgs. ...

After rescuing the kidnapped banker Tyger Tiger from the Reavers, the X-Men expelled the cyborgs from their Australian outback headquarters, and appropriatied the base for themselves (though Pierce was not present during this encounter, and was not yet revealed as the Reavers' creator). The Reavers set out to defeat the X-Men, mounting a return to their old headquarters, this time with Pierce and Deathstrike present, but after the X-Men had escaped through the Siege Perilous, they managed to capture only Wolverine, whom they tortured and crucified. Wolverine subsequently escaped with Jubilee. At one point Pierce created two super intelligent sentient androids (Elsie-Dee and Albert) to kill Wolverine but they developed ethics and turned on Pierce and abandoned the Reavers. In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous was a specially reserved seat at the Round Table which was kept vacant by Merlin for the knight who was destined to quest for and return with the Holy Grail. ... Binomial name Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Wolverine (Gulo gulo) is the largest species of the Mustelidae or weasel family, and is also called the Glutton or Carcajou. ... Jump to: navigation, search Elsie-Dee is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics, and an ally of Wolverine. ... Albert is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics, and an ally of Wolverine. ...

A few years later a new Hellfire inner circle boss, Shinobi Shaw, sent reprogrammed Sentinels to destroy the Reavers, as they were a threat to mutants and Pierce (as the former White King) was a threat to Shinobi's power. Only Lady Deathstrike escaped and it appeared that Pierce had been destroyed. The other Reavers were completely annihilated. Despite his seeming demise, he later resurfaced and troubled the X-Men once more. He recently started an anti-mutant hate group and enlisted several members. He revealed a plot to take militant terrorist actions against mutants and was thwarted by the X-Men. He was beaten by Wolverine in hand-to-hand combat even though he is several times stronger than Logan. It was revealed that very little (if any) of Pierce's human tissue remains, which explains how he was able to survive the massacre in Australia with only his head and portions of his upper torso intact.

Pierce recently tried to take over Sebastian Shaw's new Hellfire Club, launching an attack and slashing Shaw's chest. Though Shaw was left critically injured and later needed to be hospitalized, he was able to punch off Pierce's head. Whether or not Pierce could survive such an attack, his fate remains uncertain.

Powers and abilities

Donald Pierce is a cyborg with superhuman strength (meaning he can lift between 3 and 10 tons). His reflexes and agility are also inhumanly fast. These attributes are derived from his artificial body. His body has great resistance to damage and even if it is destroyed, as long as his head intact he will probably survive. There is nothing left of his original human body except the head, and how much of the head is even original is unknown. It is unknown if he still has his original brain or if he uploaded his memories, intelligence, and thought engrams into a cyborg computer brain.

Aside from his physical advantages, Donald Pierce is a genius in robotics, cybernetics, and electronics. In these fields he has developed technology that excedes that of conventional science by at least two centuries. He also has vast finnancial resources (a requirement for membership in the Hellfire club).